Women Challenge their Audience

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Women Challenge their Audience. Essay. Lessons in Public Speaking: Two women of very different backgrounds and language skills gave effective speeches in the cause of abolition. Read the speeches and the background of them. Angelina Grimke Weld’s speech in Philadelphia in 1838: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/grimke.html ; the background of that speech is at http://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2016/09/famous-speech-friday-angelina-grimkes.html . Sojourner Truth’s famous 1851 speech and its background: https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm . Also see background in chapter 29 (p986) of our class text. Then write an essay that includes the following:
1. Biographical information for each woman, emphasizing elements especially relevant to the speeches.
2. Describe the obstacles and limitations each faced that normally would hinder the making of these speeches.
3. Using specific lines, show or illustrate effective speaking methods that helped them connect to the audience.
4. Describe two lessons you learn from these examples that could be of value to you for communications in your professional life.